Because of the nuclear fallout from
Fukushima No.1, "radiation hot spots"
have appeared in Chiba, Saitama, Ibaraki
prefecture, and other places.
Kashiwa and Misato City in the Tokatsu area
are well known as seriously contaminated areas,
even though they are about 200km away from
the reactors.
In those area, it is not difficult to find
malformed plants.
People think these malformed plants as some
kind of urban legend and do not take the matter
seriously. Some say the abnormality is caused
by parasitic insects, and some insist these
kind of abnormal plants had been common
before the nuclear accident.
Nobody can prove whether these abnormalities
are caused by the radioactive fallouts from
Fukushima No.1. But if you spend a day
walking around in this area, you will get to
see carious malformed plants.
"Chidaism" is now introducing
"The Malformed Plant Photo Collection."
These pictures were taken by a man
who goes into the bush to take pictures of
malformed plants. I have gotten his permission
to show them to the public.
I assume this article is quite interesting for
plant experts and lovers. If you happend to
walk around Tokatsu area, carefully observe
the plants around you. You will find some weird
and unusual plants.
All the pictures can be enlarged by
clicking them.
All of these malformed plants were fround
AFTER the nuclear accident. We will find more
if we take more time.
The first one.
Plants Like this one, where the top part of
the plant has become abnormally large can be
observed quite frequently.
What do you think?
Does this happen often?
These malformed plants were found
in the same area. Do you think we were
just not aware of them before and these
abnormalities happen quite frequently anyway?
I assume changes in color of flowers are common,
but this white one seems abnormal to me.
This one is apparently over grown.
When you talk about radiation, there is
a myth that "Everything become huge."
Is this the case maybe?
Only with this picture, you may say
"Ha, that sometimes happens."
But I have some more pictures.
Have you ever seen a stem like this?
I can not assert that it is caused by the radiation,
but it is certain that this area is highly contaminated,
and is called a "radiation hot spot."
Like this one, we see plants with a stem
that splits as it grows. It reminds me of
worldwide TV news about two-headed snakes.
Does is have the same kind of cause?
This one is really distorted and twisted.
I am not trying to be repetitive, but these
plants were found in Tokatsu area, by only
one man wandering around. We did not from
a research team or anything like that.
I am not saying the same thing is going to
happen to people. However, if even one of
these plants was malformed due to the effect
of radiation, we have to take it seriously.
We can not say that human beings are the
exceptions and we are not going to be affected.
In highly radioactive Tokatsu area, we can
easily find malformed plants, and this might be
interesting to plant experts and researchers.
Why did these malformations happen?
It would be great if the experts from all over
the world could see these pictures.
I am begging, world. Please inspect and
verify the cause of all these abnormalities
in plants in the Tokatsu area.
I assume in Fukushima, where the radioactive
contamination is way more serious than in the
Tokatsu area, that there are more malformed plants.
However, we do not have enough infomation
because, in Japan, it is almost like a "taboo"
to discuss the contamination of Fukushima.
(Especially the malformation of plants and
animals are big taboos. Nobady will talk about it.)
In Japan, the experts and authorities say that
if you are exposed to 100mSV/year of radiation,
it will ONLY increase the risk of cancer by 0.5%.
People who are careful about radiation poisoning
are being criticized as "bad people" for making
other worry.
If you tell others that you avoid unchecked
food products from Fukushima, you will be
treated as evil person spreading bad rumors
and misinfomation. The authorities want people
eating food from contaminated areas to support
the economy, even though there might be
radioactive materials present in the foods.
By now, it is meaningless to ask experts
in Japan for advice.
The only way for us to obtain trustworthy
information is to ask un-biased oversea
researchers and experts.
It is really a shameful thing to say,
but this is how it is in Japan.